Software Updates and Changes

[Mike]

So I thought it'd be nice to have a thread dedicated to our custom software (TTM Manager) and, more specifically, what changes y'all can expect going forward.

After these first few days of having some help playing with this thing, from @kclj520 and @DFWGrapher, I realized that I never coded in a way to delete addresses. I can edit them but can't delete them. I'm not sure how I didn't think that would be a thing, but I didn't so that's something that will be added going forward.

While I'm in there I'll also add a way for members to delete their TTM requests for X days and a way to remove celebrities that are added if/when necessary.

Finally (finally for now, but not forever), I think we need to also add a way to set photos on celebrity overview pages of the latest requests from those celebrities. I'll also probably add a way to add a small photo of one of those requests to the main celebrity listing page next to each celebrity.

I'll try to have all of these things done by the end of the week. The hope is to have this bad boy dialed in and in good operating condition by the end of the month so that I can start advertising the site starting in April.

Thank you all for stopping by, and especially thank you to those who do, and will, contribute to the site. As always, if there is anything you'd like to see changed, please let me know and I'll look into it.

 

[Mike]

So I just got a few of these updates done. Members can now delete their TTM request trackers for up to 24 hours (for duplicate/accidental entries). I also added a way that I can delete addresses and celebrities. I'll start work on adding some photos to the celebrity pages (for ones we already have request photos for) soon too.

Work continues! Thank you all again for stopping by!

 

[Mike]

Ok, just a quick update. I did get it so that I could manually set an image per celebrity, but haven't quite nailed down the code to get it to set automatically once the first photo of a celebrity is updated. I'll get that finished at some point this week but, at least for now, I'll try to keep up with manually selecting them.

 

[Mike]

mjda added a new success for Richard Petty.

Looks like there's a bug here. The auto-post uses the username of whoever added the address instead of the username of the person actually posting the success. I'll look into getting this one fixed by tomorrow evening.

 

[Mike]

Looks like there's a bug here. The auto-post uses the username of whoever added the address instead of the username of the person actually posting the success. I'll look into getting this one fixed by tomorrow evening.

Nevermind...turns out it was an easier fix than I thought it could be. Consider this one fixed! It won't go back and correct all the posts that were already made but ones in the future should display the correct username.

 

[Mike]

Just as a quick update, I'm still working on a way to automatically add photos to each celebrity's profile when we get one uploaded.

Also, I'm going to add a search box to the celebrities page that will be like a quick search for celebrities, with auto-fill for the data we have.

 

[Mike]

Quite a few small changes made this weekend. I'll go through the main ones briefly here.

First, images are now automatically added to celebrities once a successful return request photo is uploaded. The system will check every hour for any new photos and update the celebrities where necessary.

There are now options to report both the celebrity and each individual address. For the celebrities themselves, you'll see a "Report" button at the top of the page, just below the celebrity name, next to the "Add address" button. To report individual addresses, those links are just below the address, to the right of the "Added by" bit.

The search bar will now include celebrity pages, instead of just the forum threads, in the search results. Also, celebrity pages are now searchable with the "search suggestions", so they will start to pop up as you type.

I've added a new "Find celebrities" block in the navigation area of the main celebrities page, as well as on each category page. The search will be limited to the category you're currently viewing, as well as any child categories of the category you're currently viewing. If you're on the main celebrities page, the quick-search will search all celebrities on the site.

As always, let me know if y'all notice any issues and/or suggestions.

 

[Mike]

A few more changes made to the site today, just to make some of the information more visible.

First, I've changed the way icons are displayed on both the celebrity lists and the request lists. Now, instead of the circles, that are similar to our site avatars, the icons are now square images, that are also a bit larger. The hope is that this will make things easier to see.

Also, on the celebrity listing page(s), I've added the overall celebrity success rate, along with all the stats for number of addresses, number of total requests, pending requests, successes, and failures. This same information has also all been added to the top of the celebrity overview pages. The stats are also still listed below on the overview page(s), separated by address.

 

[Mike]

A few more changes today...

I fixed an issue that prevented the celebrity search page from displaying at all:

Search celebrities

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Made it easier to search celebrities if you're on the main celebrities page, or viewing a specific category. There are now options, in the main search box, to search all celebrities, or just the current category (including sub-categories).